Crowdsourcing inspiration: Using crowd generated inspirational stimuli to support designer ideation

Inspirational stimuli, such as analogies, are a prominent mechanism used to support designers. However, generating relevant inspirational stimuli remains challenging. This work explores the potential of using an untrained crowd workforce to generate stimuli for trained designers. Crowd workers devel...

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Veröffentlicht in:Design studies Jg. 61; S. 1 - 29
Hauptverfasser: Goucher-Lambert, Kosa, Cagan, Jonathan
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Elsevier Ltd 01.03.2019
Schlagworte:
analogical reasoning
creativity
crowdsourcing
design cognition
crowdsourcing
creativity
design cognition
analogical reasoning
ISSN:0142-694X, 1872-6909
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Zusammenfassung:Inspirational stimuli, such as analogies, are a prominent mechanism used to support designers. However, generating relevant inspirational stimuli remains challenging. This work explores the potential of using an untrained crowd workforce to generate stimuli for trained designers. Crowd workers developed solutions for twelve open-ended design problems from the literature. Solutions were text-mined to extract words along a frequency domain, which, along with computationally derived semantic distances, partitioned stimuli into closer or further distance categories for each problem. The utility of these stimuli was tested in a human subjects experiment (N = 96). Results indicate crowdsourcing holds potential to gather impactful inspirational stimuli for open-ended design problems. Near stimuli improve the feasibility and usefulness of designs solutions, while distant stimuli improved their uniqueness. •1300 + crowd workers provided written design solutions to problems from the literature.•Crowd responses were text-mined to extract near vs. far inspirational stimuli.•The utility of extracted inspirational stimuli was tested with a designer cognitive study (N = 96).•Near inspirational stimuli improve the feasibility and usefulness of solutions.•Far inspirational stimuli improve the novelty (uniqueness) of solutions.
ISSN:0142-694X
1872-6909
DOI:10.1016/j.destud.2019.01.001